Victim Colin Payne, 41, said he was left “pumping” out with blood after he was stabbed in the torso during the dispute over whose dirty plates were left in the sink at their home in Kingsbridge Close, Harold Hill, on December 2 last year.

The defendant’s mother had flown in from America to support her son as he was sentenced for unlawful wounding.

Da Costa, 44, was due in Snaresbrook Crown Court, for the attack that left the victim having to struggle out to the road to hail down a passing car for assistance.

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